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with Elspeth Hay

An avid locavore, Elspeth lives in Wellfleet and writes a blog about food.
Elspeth is constantly exploring the Cape, Islands, and South Coast and all our farmer's markets to
find out what's good, what's growing and what to do with it. The program airs Thursdays at 7:30 on
Morning Edition and 4:30pm on All Things Considered, as well as Saturday mornings at 9:30.

Portuguese
Cookbook
Mary-Jo Avellar, author of the Provincetown Portuguese Cookbook. She's been working for
years to learn about the food traditions that her grandparents and other Portuguese
immigrants brought to Provincetown.

Tomato
Seeds
Elspeth visits again with Master Gardener Celeste Makely of Wellfleet. This time the conversation i
s
about tomato seeds.

Winter Greens
Bianca Meleo of Silverbrook Farms in Dartmouth talks about a bumper crop of winter greens. More from
Elspeth's blog.

Plymouth Farmers
Market Online
Elspeth visits the Plymouth winter farmers' market to find out about a new online ordering system
they're using in hopes of giving more people access to local food. Read Elspeth's blog entry.

Joel Salatin, Part 2
Joel Salatin, Part Two. Salatin runs Polyface Farm in Virginia's Shenendoah Valley, and he was profi
led by
Michael Pollan in his book The Omnivore's Dilemma. Elspeth met him when he spoke this fall
at Cape Cod Community College. Read Elspeth's blog.

Drew Locke
Elspeth talks with a young Truro farmer, Drew Locke, about his plans to bring chickens back to his
family land.

Jail Garden
On Martha's Vineyard, Elspeth learns about an unlikely collaboration between an Edgartown teaching
farm and the Dukes County jail. (rebroadcast)

Popcorn
Elspeth learns how to make popcorn for her Christmas tree. (rebroadcast)

Off the Land
Elspeth meets up with fellow local food blogger Tamar Haspel to bring us this story of
her attempts at self sufficiency on Cape Cod. And here's Elspeth's blog entry.
Fruit Dreams
On a rainy day at the Falmouth Farmers' Market, Elspeth heard this story of Myrna Cook about the
orchard she inherited - and the dreams that came with it.

Truffles
A story of searching for truffles in an Italian farm field.
Read more about truffles.

FishElspeth goes a little further afield to talk with the organizers and participants of
a
new Gloucester-based Community Supported Fishery.

FromageElspeth talks with Kathleen Kadlik of Falmouth about how she got her start as
a
cheesemaker - and about the best way to eat Kadlik's top-selling gorgonzola burata, which they both
agree is with a pear.

ClambakeElspeth talks with folklorist Kathy Neustadt, author of the book Clambake,
about the end
of summer feasting ritual and what it means to the community of Westport.

MeatmanElspeth talks with Joe Beaulieu of Fairhaven about his new mobile meat-vending
endeavor.

Ground CherryElspeth talks with Clare Bergh of Brewster about the Giant Cape
Gooseberry and its
cousin, Aunt Molly's Ground Cherry.

BlightElspeth talks with Stan Ingram, manager of Coonamesset Farm in East Falmouth,
about
this year's tomato blight.

BlueberriesElspeth talks with Bob Wells of Eastham about growing blueberries. He's producing them
in a way that not only emits none of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, but that
actually has a negative carbon footprint.

Striped bassElspeth talks with a fisherman from Truro and a scientist from
Provincetown about a large school of striped bass that have congregated in the waters off the tip of
Cape Cod.

Blue potatoesElspeth discovers a new variety of blue potatoes being grown locally this
year.

A Growing BusinessElspeth talks with Chris Fischer of Martha's Vineyard about a business
he's started to
help get more people into backyard vegetable gardens.

BeerElspeth talks with Todd Marcus of Cape Cod Beer in Hyannis about the brewing
process.

Bluefin
Tuna, part
2Elspeth continues her coverage of the local bluefin tuna. She talks with biologist Molly
Lutcavage of the Large Pelagics Research Center in Durham, New Hampshire about
how the species is
doing in Cape Cod Bay.

Photo on home page provided by the Large Pelagics Research Center at the University
of New
Hampshire

Reichl on food and ObamaElspeth continues her conversation with Ruth Reichl. This week, in recognition of the
inauguration,
Reichl talks about the politics of food and her hopes for the incoming Obama
administration.